Vishwapriya Kochhar

Priya has more than 2 decades of experience in various facets of Human Resources in diverse industries. Her expertise lies in Diversity Inclusion, Change Advisory, Ethics & Code of Conduct, Staffing (including Leadership/CXO levels), Rewards Management, Learning, Organization Development, Cultural Change Programs across geographies, Leadership interventions, Training & Talent Management. 

She likes to believe that she is a Survivor, she wears her scars as her proud badges, has survived very many struggles & traumas. She began her Coaching journey to end her own games of playing the victim & wanting to help others, while she helps herself. She opines that wisdom may come from a place of surviving odds & adversities. She is a big Rumi (poet & philosopher) fan, applies these dreamy inspirations to her logical Coachees & also tries to get her dreamy Coachees to experience the fatal realities of the world. She strongly opines that Diversity is a mere here say if one doesn’t follow it up with Inclusion as a way of life or as a practice. 

She is an ACTP ICF certified Life Coach, loves helping people achieve their dreams & is exposed to insightful Behavioral Laboratory techniques of ISABS. She has a questioning academic oriented mind & loves picking up a new learning ever so often. Priya is an Oxford Scholar & Ambassador’ from University of Oxford & also an Alumni of Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K), India. She is a fitness enthusiast who believes in holistic life transformation by being aware of everything that one actually consumes, be it food, thoughts or people-company. She is a stand-up Leadership facilitator & APP accredited on various psychometric tools, Action Learning, Experiential & Catharsis based De-briefs.

Some of her intense assignments include the Avantha Group where she crafted their Organization Development charter from scratch across all their Global businesses. Then, the very Global new age Learning Solutions & Publishing organization Pearson, where she was heading Human Capital for their India Subcontinent Education business. With Pearson, she also held coveted roles of Culture, Change & Communication to assist Businesses in their Global Transformation agenda, bringing in a strong focus on their Inclusion mandate across Change Programs.

Priya was also with PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Numero Uno Big4 Consulting Brand where she was heading Human Resources for their Financial Advisory vertical. She has been the North Ethics & Diversity Champ in her previous roles & her Oxford Thesis on Gender Diversity has been received very well. She holds a special connect for Diversity & tries to practice Inclusion in small ways in her everyday life. She believes we are all diverse in our own ways & organizations today need to embrace this uniqueness with maturity & professionalism. She opines small steps are the way to bust cloning in businesses today & building in simple practices to appreciate differences is critical from Hiring, Systems, Performance Management, Feedbacking & in Processes. 

Her strengths lie in working with Leadership by Coaching & supporting them for organizational excellence. She has worked on end-to-end Diversity Strategy, then in executing for large businesses by aiding them to create a policy, structure, system & implementation mechanisms on a long-term cause-effect relationship basis. She has worked around various tenets of Diversity – Gender, Age, Ethnicity, Challenged, LGBTQ+, Inclusivity needs across business geographies.